Four-star One MICHELIN Key Wiestistrasse, Zermatt
Hotel Welschen
A family house of 1932 beside the Sunnegga lift, rebuilt in 2025 with twenty-nine rooms, a 600 square metre spa and the Matterhorn in most windows.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key, new in 2026
- Rooms
- 29, up from 14 before the rebuild
- Reopened
- March 2025
- From the airport
- Sion, then about 15 minutes by helicopter
The hotel
Three generations by the Sunnegga lift.
Theodor Welschen built the house in 1932 with timber and stone of his own. It began as a small family hotel and stayed one, with fourteen rooms, a few steps from where the Sunnegga Express now leaves for the slopes. The Welschen family still runs it, now in the third generation, from a sunny corner of Wiestistrasse with the Matterhorn in view.
In 2025 the family rebuilt it. The hotel reopened on 3 March 2025 with twenty-nine rooms, most of them facing west or south towards the Matterhorn, and a spa of 600 square metres around an indoor pool. Dietmar Sawyere had opened Ad Lib in the house the year before. In 2026 the MICHELIN Guide added the Welschen to its selection with one Key, one of four new Key hotels in Switzerland that year.
- Next to the lift The Sunnegga Express is about ten metres from the door, and the station a six-minute walk.
- The spa Six hundred square metres, with an indoor pool at 33°C facing the Matterhorn, a Finnish sauna, a steam room and a gym.
- Ad Lib Dietmar Sawyere's restaurant, with a menu that changes each week with the market and the mountain season.
Rooms & suites
Rooms facing west and south.
Eight room categories and three kinds of serviced apartment, most with the Matterhorn in view.
- Rooms Eight categories From 24 to 53 square metres.
- Apartments Serviced apartments Three categories, the largest of 165 square metres.
Dining
Fine dining and a Stübli.
Venues as listed by the hotel; the MICHELIN listing is from the current MICHELIN Guide Switzerland. Shown for information.
- Ad Lib MICHELIN Guide Seasonal Dietmar Sawyere; evenings from 6.30 pm
- Welschen Bar & Stübli Swiss More than 200 wines
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by 11 am.
- Car-free Zermatt has no cars. The station is about six minutes away on foot; electric taxis also run in the village.
Getting there
Flying to Zermatt.
No road or runway reaches Zermatt. Private jets land at Sion, and a helicopter covers the rest in about fifteen minutes; scheduled flights arrive at Zurich, about three and a half hours away by train, or Geneva, about four.
- Milan 35 min
- Paris 55 min
- Rome 1 h 10
- London 1 h 25
- Dubai 6 h 40 long-range jet
Questions
What guests ask first.
- Does Hotel Welschen have a MICHELIN Key?
- Yes. It entered the MICHELIN selection in 2026 with one Key.
- How close is Hotel Welschen to the ski lifts?
- Very close. The Sunnegga Express is about ten metres from the hotel.
- When was Hotel Welschen rebuilt?
- In 2025. It reopened on 3 March 2025 with twenty-nine rooms, up from fourteen, and a new 600 square metre spa.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Zermatt?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Zermatt, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Zermatt
Other hotels worth the trip.
- CERVO Mountain Resort Fifty-four rooms and seven separate lodges, and a spa with Japanese-style onsen baths.
- Matterhorn FOCUS Glass, steel and wood by Heinz Julen, and a lift that runs straight to the Matterhorn Express.
- Grand Hotel Zermatterhof A grand hotel since 1879, reached by sleigh in winter, with Prato Borni in the house.
- Mont Cervin Palace One hundred and thirty-two rooms on the main street, the Nescens spa, and Capri upstairs next door.
- The Omnia Reached through a tunnel in the rock and a lift that rises to a lobby above the rooftops.
- THE SIXTEEN 20 The former 22 Summits: about twenty rooms in wood and stone, a few minutes' walk from the Matterhorn cable car.
- Backstage Hotel Vernissage Heinz Julen's Cube Lofts, a cinema and gallery of its own, and After Seven on the third floor.
- Boutique Hotel Matthiol Stone and weathered wood on the hillside, with fondue served in private igloos in winter.
Staying at Hotel Welschen?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Zermatt, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.